The Future Past World Tour was a concert tour by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, in support of their seventeenth studio album Senjutsu, which is part of their tour's theme, along with their 1986 album Somewhere in Time. Following 2005's Eddie Rips Up the World Tour, 2008–2009's Somewhere Back in Time World Tour and the Maiden England World Tour in 2012–2014, this is the band's fourth concert tour to focus on a particular part of their history. The tour featured "Alexander the Great", which was performed for the first time. The tour was set to continue into 2024. The tour started on 28 May 2023 in Ljubljana and concluded on 7 December 2024 in Sao Paulo. It was the final concert tour to feature Nicko McBrain before his retirement from touring, and the band announced it shortly before the concert at São Paulo, Brazil, which is the final date of the tour.

Background

All thirty-three shows of the European leg were commercial and artistic successes with more than 750,000 fans in attendance. Mostly indoor events attracted record numbers of spectators, and according to critics, the band showed its best form in many years. The 2023 leg of the tour ended with the group's performance at the Wacken Open Air festival, which they headlined for the fourth time in their career. Drummer Nicko McBrain participated in the tour after suffering a stroke in January 2023. On 6 October, the band performed at Power Trip, which was attended by 100,000 people and became their largest performance as a festival headliner in the United States. In mid-October, shows planned for 2024 were announced. Already at the pre-sale stage, a second concert at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago was added. In a short period, over 100,000 tickets were sold for both concerts combined, setting another record in the history of the band. The first concert in Bogota in 13 years at the El Campin stadium was sold out at the pre-sale stage in 20 minutes. The band broke all previous records of ticket sales for Colombian concerts by a foreign artist, set by icons such as The Rolling Stones, Madonna, The Weekend, Ed Sheeran, and Coldplay.

The first of two concerts at the Allianz Parque stadium in São Paulo was sold out in two minutes, the band set a sales record for a group representing heavy rock music. In Argentina, over 50,000 tickets for a stadium concert in Buenos Aires were sold in three hours. it's happened for the first time in the band’s career to sell out a show in Argentina so quickly. 44 shows scheduled for 2024 attracted more than one million people across Asia, Oceania and both Americas. The band performed 81 shows for almost two million fans throughout the tour.

The visual setting of the stage referred to the cyberpunk style associated with the classic sci-fi movie "Blade Runner". The overall design brought to mind a dystopian city of the future, topped with ramps of lights arranged in the shape of a pyramid. For the first time, the band used additional screens placed symmetrically deep inside the stage to present visualizations and music videos, deepening the three-dimensional effect.

Opening acts 2023 The Raven Age (28–31 May, 4–21 June, 8–25 July, 29–31 July) Lord of the Lost (3 June, 24 June – 7 July, 26 July, 1 August) Atreyu (28 September – 2 October)

2024 Killswitch Engage (1–16 September) The Hu (4 October - 17 November) Disturbed (20 November) Ágora (20 November) Krönös (24 November) Dogma (27–28 November) Malón (1, 2 December) Volbeat (6-7 December)

Set list

Intro: "End Titles" from Blade Runner (by Vangelis) "Caught Somewhere in Time" "Stranger in a Strange Land" "The Writing on the Wall" "Days of Future Past" "The Time Machine" "The Prisoner" "Death of the Celts" "Can I Play with Madness" "Heaven Can Wait" "Alexander the Great" "Fear of the Dark" "Iron Maiden" Encore "Hell on Earth" "The Trooper" "Wasted Years"

Tour dates + List of 2023 concertsDateCityCountryVenue28 May 2023LjubljanaSloveniaArena Stozice30 May 2023PragueCzech Republic O2 Arena31 May 20233 June 2023Tampere FinlandNokia Arena4 June 20237 June 2023BergenNorwayKoengen9 June 2023NorjeSwedenNorje Havsbad11 June 2023LeipzigGermanyQuarterback Immobilien Arena13 June 2023KrakówPolandTauron Arena14 June 202317 June 2023ClissonFranceVal de Moine19 June 2023ZürichSwitzerlandHallenstadion21 June 2023HanoverGermanyZAG-Arena24 June 2023DublinIreland3Arena26 June 2023GlasgowScotlandOVO Hydro28 June 2023LeedsEnglandFirst Direct Arena30 June 2023ManchesterAO Arena3 July 2023NottinghamMotorpoint Arena4 July 2023BirminghamUtilita Arena Birmingham7 July 2023LondonThe O2 Arena8 July 202311 July 2023AmsterdamNetherlandsZiggo Dome13 July 2023AntwerpBelgiumSportpaleis15 July 2023MilanItalyIppodromo di San Siro18 July 2023BarcelonaSpainPalau Sant Jordi20 July 2023MurciaEstadio Nueva Condomina22 July 2023BilbaoBizkaia Arena25 July 2023DortmundGermany Westfalenhalle26 July 202329 July 2023FrankfurtFesthalle31 July 2023MunichOlympiahalle1 August 20234 August 2023WackenHauptstrasse28 September 2023CalgaryCanada Scotiabank Saddledome30 September 2023 EdmontonRogers Place2 October 2023VancouverRogers Arena6 October 2023IndioUnited StatesEmpire Polo Club

+ List of 2024 concertsDateCityCountryVenue1 September 2024PerthAustraliaRAC Arena4 September 2024AdelaideAdelaide Entertainment Centre6 September 2024MelbourneRod Laver Arena7 September 202410 September 2024BrisbaneBrisbane Entertainment Centre12 September 2024SydneyQudos Bank Arena13 September 202416 September 2024AucklandNew ZealandSpark Arena22 September 2024ToyotaJapanSky Hall Toyota24 September 2024OsakaOsaka-jō Hall26 September 2024TokyoTokyo Garden Theater28 September 2024YokohamaPia Arena MM29 September 20244 October 2024Chula VistaUnited StatesNorth Island Credit Union Amphitheatre5 October 2024Las VegasMichelob Ultra Arena8 October 2024InglewoodKia Forum9 October 2024PhoenixFootprint Center12 October 2024 SacramentoDiscovery Park14 October 2024PortlandModa Center16 October 2024TacomaTacoma Dome18 October 2024Salt Lake CityDelta Center19 October 2024DenverBall Arena22 October 2024Saint PaulXcel Energy Center24 October 2024RosemontAllstate Arena26 October 2024TorontoCanadaScotiabank Arena27 October 2024Quebec CityVideotron Centre30 October 2024MontrealBell Centre1 November 2024PhiladelphiaUnited StatesWells Fargo Center2 November 2024BrooklynBarclays Center6 November 2024WorcesterDCU Center8 November 2024PittsburghPPG Paints Arena9 November 2024NewarkPrudential Center12 November 2024BaltimoreCFG Bank Arena13 November 2024CharlotteSpectrum Center16 November 2024Fort WorthDickies Arena17 November 2024San AntonioFrost Bank Center20 November 2024Mexico CityMéxicoEstadio GNP Seguros24 November 2024BogotáColombiaEstadio El Campín27 November 2024SantiagoChileEstadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos28 November 20241 December 2024Buenos AiresArgentinaEstadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó2 December 2024Movistar Arena6 December 2024São PauloBrazilAllianz Parque7 December 2024

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